The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

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

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

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