As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

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

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.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.