God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

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

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.

Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

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.

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

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