Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

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

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

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.