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.

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.

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

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

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

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

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