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

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.

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

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

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

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

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.