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

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.

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.

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

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

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.