Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

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

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

Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

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

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.