You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.

God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.