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.

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.

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

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.

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

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.

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.