Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies