Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.