"... Fulfill well the will of God in the cases in which you may have the most difficulty. It is a little thing to please God in what pleases us: filial fidelity requires that we will to please Him in what does not please us, putting before our eyes what the great well-beloved Son said of Himself: "I am not come to do my will, but the will of him that sent me," for you also are not a Christian to do your own will, but to do the will of Him Who has adopted you..."
"Let us pray God earnestly to give us grace so to live according to His pleasure in this pilgrimage, that arriving at our heavenly country, we may be able to rejoice at having seen one another here below, and to have spoken here of the mysteries of eternity."
"Keep that holy gaiety of heart which nourishes the strength of the soul and edifies our neighbour... And to God be ever praise, thanksgiving and benedictions. Amen."
- St. Francis De Sales

"This life is short, it is only given us to gain the other..."
"You will often be amongst the children of this world, who, according to their custom, will laugh at all they see or think they see in you contrary to their miserable inclinations. Do not busy yourself with disputing with them, show no sort of sadness under their attacks; but joyously laugh at their laughter, despise their contempt, smile at their remonstrances, gracefully mock at their mockeries; and not giving attention to all this, walk always gaily in the service of God; and in time of prayer, commend these poor souls to the Divine Mercy. They are worthy of compassion in having no desire for honourable company, except to laugh and mock at subjects worthy of respect and reverence."
"I see that you abound in the goods of the present life; take care that your heart become not attached thereto... Let us consider that all we have makes us really nothing more than the rest of the world, and that all this is nothing before Angels …Altro

"They who discouraged the Isrealites from going into the land of promise told them it was a country that devoured it's inhabitants; or, in other words, that it was impossible to withstand the pestilential infection of its air; and, further, that the natives were such monsters that they devoured men like locusts. It is in this manner that the world defames holy devotion, representing devout persons as a peevish, gloomy and sullen race of men, pretending that devotion begets melancholy and insupportable humors. But as Josue and Caleb protested that the promised land was not only good and fair, but also that the possession of it would be sweet and agreeable, so the Holy Ghost, by the mouths of all the saints, and Our Savior by His own, assure us that the devout life is a life of all others, the most sweet, happy and amiable...
"... O worldlings! devout souls, it is true, find much bitterness in their exercises of mortification; but in performing them, they convert them into the most delicious …Altro