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….

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 a….

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

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..

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in res….

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 f….

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 boun….

If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unkn….

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….

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

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 se….

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eter….

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, ….

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 perfo….

As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transf….

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 ….

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

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God..

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..

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

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