Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

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

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.