During the night we must wait for the light.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

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.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.