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

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

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.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

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

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.

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.