In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.