Friendship requires great communication.
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
Have patience with all things – but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.