Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

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.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.