What reason can you have for becoming discouraged when things do not turn out right for you? (III:207).

Let us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it (III:206).

Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them (III:206).

What would it be like if everything were favorable to us, and what right have poor people like us to expect that we will always be successful? (III:206)

The Church has enough solitaries… her great need is evangelical men who work to purge, enlighten, and unite the Church to her Divine Spouse (III:204).

I beg Our Lord to bind all of us together in His pure love, so that together we may love Him uniquely, strongly, and eternally (III:203).

Conscience urges me to limit myself to what I can do and to honor the omnipotence of God by recognition of my own powerlessness (III:198).

Grace imitates nature in many things, making them ugly and unpleasant, but with time she perfects them (III:191-192).

May your heart ever taste the sweetness of that of Our Lord (III:190).

God's good pleasure is that those blessed, chosen souls, whom He loves so dearly, should be tempted and afflicted daily (III:182).