It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.