The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.