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

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

How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

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

The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.

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?