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

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

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

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

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