The whole world is not worth one soul.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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.