Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

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.

To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face

Patience obtains everything.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.