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.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

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.

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.

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

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.