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

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.