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

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

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

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

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

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

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.