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

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

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