“It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.”

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

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.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

From moment to moment one can bear much.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me.

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.