Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.