I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.