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.

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.

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.

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

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

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.