How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

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

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.