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

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.

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.

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.

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

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