It is time for you to follow Our Lord along the narrow path of a life in conformity with your vocation (IV:358).

Let us have greater confidence in God than we do; let us allow God to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck (IV:347).

If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God (IV:329).

Our confidence is increasing that God will soon give us peace, according to the maxim that where human means fail, divine operations begin (IV:329).

Happy will we be if God finds us worthy of suffering for justice's sake and if God grants us the grace of loving humiliation and returning good for evil (IV:301).

God often wants to build lasting benefits on the patience of those who undertake them (IV:290).

God’s providence will never fail us as long as we do not fail in His service (IV:284).

God Himself will be your support and your courage, all the more complete since you will have no refuge or trust but in Him alone (IV:283).

How happy are those who bear their cross lovingly in imitation of the Master (IV:283).

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 (IV:267).