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?

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Be who you are and be that well.

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.