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

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

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.