Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.