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

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

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

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

Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?