We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.

If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

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

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.

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