If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.