Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

From moment to moment one can bear much.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.