To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.