What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.