Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.

Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.