God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Thank God for the things that I do not own.
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
Let thy words be few when in the midst of many...
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.
So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.