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.

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

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

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

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.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

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.