On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.
For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.