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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.