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.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

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

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

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