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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.