The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.