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.

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

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

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.

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.

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.