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.

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

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.

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.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

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