Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

God is never late, but rarely early.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.