If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

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