If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.