The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

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