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.

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

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.

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.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

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

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.