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

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

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

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.

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

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