All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels. - François Fénelon

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

Nous verrons à sa lumière, dans l'éternité, que ce que nous désirions nous eût été funeste, et que ce que nous voulions éviter était essentiel à notre bonheur.

If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.