Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

Always winter but never Christmas.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.