Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

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.

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.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

We trust and believe in what we love.