The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.