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

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Finding God in All Things.

Discouragement is not from God.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.