Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.

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.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.