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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

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.