After every storm, there comes clear open skies.

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.