Marguerite Duportal

“Evil, far from existing by itself, is nothing other than default, the lapse, the lack, or the absence of goodness. Let us, therefore, seek to fill this void and vacancy wherever we find it by doing good to our fellow men, by dispensing happiness to them.”

“To turn away from God in misfortune is to bring upon oneself harm a thousand times more cruel than that under which one thinks himself to be suffering. It is to reject at once all the sweetness and all the nobility of suffering.”