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.

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

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.

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.

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.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.