How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.