Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

After you die, you wear what you are.

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

His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.