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!

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.

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.

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.

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