If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.