“Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.”

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.