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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spite of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love. - [Cross] A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without taking the life. - [Preaching] Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. - [Duty] Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it. - [Courage] Beware of fatiguing them by ill-judged exactness. If virtue offer itself to a child under a melancholy and constrained aspect, if liberty and license present themselves under an agreeable form, all is lost, your labor is in vain. - [Children] Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves? - [God] Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. - [Children] Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course. - [Despondency] Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw. - [Faith in God] God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. - [God] God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith. - [God] God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them. - [God] Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. - [Faults] He touches nothing but he adds a charm. - [Proverbs] I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands. - [Death] I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition. - [Duty] I love my country better than my family; but I love human nature better than my country. - [Humanity] If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. - [Books] If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection. - [Faith in God] If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity. - [Faults] 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. - [Disappointment] It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. - [Imperfection] Jesus Christ was born in a stable; He was obliged to fly into Egypt; thirty years of His life were spent in a workshop; He suffered hunger, thirst, and weariness; He was poor, despised, and miserable; He taught the doctrines of heaven, and no one would listen. The great and the wise persecuted and took Him, subjected Him to frightful torments, treated Him as a slave, and put Him to death between two malefactors, having preferred to give liberty to a robber, rather than to suffer Him to escape. Such was the life which our Lord chose; while we are horrified at any kind of humiliation, and cannot bear the slightest appearance of contempt. - [Christ] Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others. - [Toleration] Little opportunities should be improved. - [Opportunity] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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