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?

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

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 most essential point is lowliness.

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

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