The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Patient endurance attends to all things.