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.

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.

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

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

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?

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.

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