Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.