Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.