Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?