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.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

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.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.