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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.