Oh! How Seldom The Soul Is Silent,

There Is No More Dangerous Illusion Than The Fancies By Which People Try To Avoid Illusion.

The Great Point Is To Renounce Your Own Wisdom By Simplicity Of Walk, And To Be Ready To Give Up The Favor, Esteem, And Approbation Of Every One, Whenever The Path In Which God Leads You Passes That Way.

Pure Love Is In The Will Alone; It Is No Sentimental Love, For The Imagination Has No Part In It; It Loves, If We May So Express It, Without Feeling, As Faith Believes Without Seeing.

Accustom Yourself Gradually To Carry Prayer Into All Your Daily Occupation - Speak, Act, Work In Peace, As If You Were In Prayer, As Indeed You Ought To Be.

Discouragement Is Simply The Despair Of Wounded Self-love.