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God...never tires of waiting for some people, enlightening them only little by little, so I was careful not to rush things.

Suffering makes us good; it makes us indulgent towards others, because suffering brings us nearer to the good Lord.

...we will not reach perfection in the love of neighbor if that love doesn't rise from love of God as its root.

I have found favor with this sovereign Virgin in everything I have asked of her, and in the end she has drawn me to herself.

The Lord desires so intensely that we love Him and seek His company, so much so that from time to time He calls us to draw near Him. And His voice is so sweet...They come through words spoken by other good people, or through sermons, or through what is read in good books, or through the many things that are heard and by which God calls.

All of this darkness signifies the obscurity of faith with which the divinity is clothed while communicating itself to the soul.

His Majesty is not accustomed to paying poorly for His lodging if the hospitality is good.

... the communication and sense of His presence, however great they may be, and the most sublime and profound knowledge of God which the soul may have in this life, are not God essentially, neither have they any affinity with Him, for in very truth He is still hidden from the soul; and it is therefore expedient for it, amid all these grandeurs, always to consider Him as hidden, and to seek Him in His hiding-place...

The more you feel your weakness, the greater should be your trust, for it is upon Him alone that we are leaning.

Don't think you are capable of great trials if you are not capable of such little ones.

It is the nature of perfect love to seek or accept nothing for itself, to attribute nothing to itself, but to refer all to the Beloved. If this be true of earthly love, how much more so of the love of God...

It is well known by experience that, when the will of a man is affectioned to one thing, he prizes it more than any other; although some other thing may be much better, he takes less pleasure in it. And if he wishes to enjoy both, he is bound to wrong the more important, because he makes an equality between them. Wherefore, since there is naught that equals God, the soul that loves some other thing together with Him, or clings to it, does Him a grievous wrong. And if this is so, what would it be doing if it loved anything more than God?