God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

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

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

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

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.