We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

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

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

From moment to moment one can bear much.

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