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

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

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.

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

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.

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!