All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

You learn to love by loving.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.