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

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.