Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

Be who you are and do that well.

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

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

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.