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.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

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

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment