A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Silence does good to the soul.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

Love needs to be proved by action.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.