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

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.

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

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of Thee. My heart is athirst for God.

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.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.