There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

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.

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.

We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.