Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

God is even kinder than you think.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.