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.

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

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

Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

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.