So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

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

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.