It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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