I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.