God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

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

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.