If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

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.

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

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.

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

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