Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.