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

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

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

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

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

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.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.