Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.