My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

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

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.