My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

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

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

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.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.