If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.