“How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.”

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

God is even kinder than you think.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

All successful people – not just entrepreneurs – have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Failure makes me work even harder.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.