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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

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

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

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

His Majesty [the Lord] ... rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

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

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

Let us not fail him; do not fear that he will fail you. And if some time he should fail you, it will be for a greater good. The

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

All the way to heaven is heaven.

All times are dangerous times.

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself ...

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

Do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

Christ has no body on Earth but ours.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

We are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.

But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;

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

We should pray most regularly for those who give us light.

For, as I have already said, it is the ecclesiastical and not the secular arm which must defend us.

Love turns work into rest.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

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

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.

God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.

Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.

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

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

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

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

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

God is even kinder than you think.

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

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

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

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

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Remember, my sisters, that if we are not good we are much more to blame than others.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many ...

After you die, you wear what you are.

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ...

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me ...

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

One always goes on as one begins ...

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works
I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Many people are good at talking and bad at understanding,