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

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words..."Thy will be done."

There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.

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?

He who has Jesus has everything.

What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.