We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.