How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.

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

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

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

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

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

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.