What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes...
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility.
Love turns work into rest.
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
From moment to moment one can bear much.
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man’s mind.
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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.