A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.

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

We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.