The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.