“Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.”

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,the greater peace.”

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.”

“The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown," the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .”

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”