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.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

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

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

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

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.