To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.