Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

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

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.