Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

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difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.