When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

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

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.