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

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

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

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?

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.