Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

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.