I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

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.

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

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.