Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?

Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.