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

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

The most essential point is lowliness.

It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?