“Know that thankfulness is from the highest of stations, and it is higher than patience, fear, and detachment of the world.”

“To accept a trial is to thank God for it, with the understanding that it permits us a victory, a detachment with regard to the world and with regard to the ego.”

“Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego… Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?”

“The more inwardly pure a man is, the higher his rank and the nobler his station, so much he assiduously labors with sincere performance and a great fear.”

“Patience is the highest form of self-control.”

“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”

“We have to tune ourselves into the love frequency because it's higher than fear.”

“The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.”

“I find that trials help very much in detaching us from this earth. They make us look higher than this world. Here below, nothing can satisfy us. We cannot enjoy a little rest except in being ready to do God's will. [-] Truly, life isn't cheerful. It is very difficult to be attached to it. Au revoir, dear Pauline, my Confidante.”

“In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.”