The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.
The hour I have long wished for is now come.
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
As God’s beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.