I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found... It should be a great consolation to us - though many of us do not think of it - that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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