I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Love needs to be proved by action.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.