To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

The most essential point is lowliness.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

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