He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

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

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.