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.

Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

Silence does good 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.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.