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..

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..

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

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 mis….

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 exerc….

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 ….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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..

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….

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, ….

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….

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..

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

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

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….