He who prays most receives most.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

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.

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.