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.

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.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

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

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

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.

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