Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.