Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

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.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.