Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

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

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.