Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

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

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.