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.

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.

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

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.

As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.