Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.