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.

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

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

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.

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

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

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.