“Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.”

An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name.

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I’ve never accepted anything I haven’t earned.

Maybe the lesson is not how best to chase the things we think will make us happy, but learning to be happy wherever we are instead.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.

You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.

When you fully accept the dimples on your thighs and the tiger stripes that radiate from the centre of yours chest, it becomes an empowering experience.

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I’m so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

Maybe the key to happiness is learning to appreciate life for what it is rather than what it could be.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.