Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Truth suffers, but never dies.