Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

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

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

God is even kinder than you think.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

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

Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.