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

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

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

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.

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.

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.

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.