Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.