He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

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

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

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.