When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

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

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

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

At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.

Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart

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