It is better to die than to tell a lie

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.