People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.