Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!