All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

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