When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

Be who you are and be that well.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

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?