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.

Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.

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

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

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.

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