God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

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

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

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.

From moment to moment one can bear much.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?