If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

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

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

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.

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.