Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

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.

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

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

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Love needs to be proved by action.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.