Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.