Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

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

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies