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.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

Little opportunities should be improved.

Pity enlarges the heart.

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.

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?