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.

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

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

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

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

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.