The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

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

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.