I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

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

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.