Discouragement is not from God.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.

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

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.