If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.