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.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.