Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

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.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.