If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.