Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences

The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

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

. . . [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 . . .