I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

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

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.

One always goes on as one begins.