For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

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

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.