Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.

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

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

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.

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.

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.