Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

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!

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

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

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.

I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.