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.

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

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?

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

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!

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.

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.

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

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

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.

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.

To rob God of nothing to refuse Him nothing to require of Him nothing this is great perfection.

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

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.