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

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it