As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

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

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.