We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those sacred hours! The joyful awakening, the reverent and tender embraces of my mistresses and older companions, the room filled with white frocks, like so many snowflakes, where each child was dressed in turn.

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

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

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.

the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.

I say nothing to him I love him