Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

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

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you 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.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.