Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

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

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!