It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.