If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

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

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.