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

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

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

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

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.

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.