If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!