Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.