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

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

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.

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!

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

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.