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.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

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

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

After you die, you wear what you are.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.