[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him