To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.