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.

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

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

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.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.

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.

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.