It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

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

How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.