If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

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

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

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

Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.