[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

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

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.