Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves
The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.
It is better to die than to tell a lie
When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
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