I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

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

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.