It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.