How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.