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...Jesus has taken command of my ship and has protected it from encountering other vessels. He has kept me in solitude with Himself. Consequently, my heart, by knowing this Captain, has fallen under the spell of His love, and here He keeps me captive. Oh, I love this prison and this powerful King who keeps me captive; and how I love this Captain who amid the waves of the ocean doesn't allow me to suffer shipwreck.

It is in prayer that the soul learns to know Jesus and thus to love him. Since love cannot be satisfied with difference but with equality, the result is union in similarity.

Our Lord kept nothing for Himself when He loved me from the wood of the Cross. And will I give myself to Him by halves?

The soul that has given itself to God must give itself completely, for love leaves nothing for itself. Let it be consumed entirely so that from these ashes only one person may rise: Christ. The creature is consumed in the divinity.

When we have a friend in our home, we don't leave him alone; but from time to time, even when we are busy, we try to go to him to speak to him.  Do the same with Jesus.  In the beginning it will be hard to recollect yourself, but afterwards it will become habitual for you to be with God.

I have understood that the thing that separates me most from God is my pride. I propose to be humble. Without humility the other virtues are hypocrisy. ... Humility gains us similarity to Christ, peace of soul, holiness and intimate union with God.

Why should we not seek that Being, the one thing necessary? Let's love Him and we'll be happy to the extent that God is the object of our understanding and will.

I don't know what happens to me when I contemplate Our God exiled in the tabernacles for love of His creatures who forget and offend Him.  I'd like to live till the end of the world by suffering together with the Divine Prisoner.

There are many degrees and kinds of prayer.  The first is meditation which consists in reflecting on a truth.  The essential point of prayer is to inflame the will in the love of God, for if that is attained, one has the strength to practice virtues.

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

Let us nourish a filial fear of offending God, the same kind of fear that a child has for its father it fears to displease, not because of punishment but because he knows that his father loves him and endures him.

If you give yourself to prayer, you will attain having God manifest Himself to you, and He will make you fall in love with Him.