Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
I am very far from practicing what I understand.
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
It is love alone that counts.
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.