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.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.