I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

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

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.