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

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.