It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

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

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

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.