The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

God will not be outdone in generosity.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.