Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

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

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.