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

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

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.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

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