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?

Speak, move, act in peace.

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.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

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

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

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.