Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.