Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.