Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.