God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.