The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.