All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

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