If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

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

The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.