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

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves