To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

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

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

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

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.