He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.