For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.

But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

I know that God is putting me through the fire of afflictions. I've accepted the blows that life has dealt me, and sometimes I feel as cold and indifferent as the water that inflicts such pain on the steel. But my one prayer is this: 'Please, God, my Mother, don't give up until I've taken on the shape that you wish for me. Do this by whatever means you think best, for as long as you like but never ever throw me on the scrap heap of souls.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.