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I have seen clearly that...here on earth the Lord has no measure in giving when He is pleased to do so. Thus I wouldn't want to use any measure in my service to His Majesty and in employing all my life and strength and health to this end.

Whatever be our state in life ... every one of us ought to be holy unto God ... How can these requirements be met? ... by keeping oneself simply and lovingly turned to Him, so that God may see His own image reflected in the soul as the sun is reflected through a pure crystal.

Enter within yourself and work in the silence of your spouse who is ever present loving you.

I started to love the most Sacred Humanity. Prayer began to take shape as an edifice that now had a foundation.

If you have confidence in Him and have courageous spirits--for His Majesty is very fond of these--you need not fear that He will fail you in anything.

Virtue does not consist in apprehensions and feelings of God, however sublime they may be, or in any similar experience. On the contrary, it comprises... deep humility, contempt for themselves and all things. All heavenly visions, revelations, and feelings are not worth as much as the least act of humility. Consequently souls should not look for their happiness in these supernatural apprehensions.

The cross and peace are my portion. But the cross and discouragement are the portion of the enemy and of those who listen to the enemy.

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

Learn, for the Creator's sake, to overcome yourself in all things; and then you will be able to attain to the knowledge of God.

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

But because being one with Christ is our sanctity, and progressively becoming one with him our happiness on earth, the love of the cross in no way contradicts being a joyful child of God. Helping Christ carry his cross fills one with a strong and pure joy, and those who may and can do so, the builders of God's kingdom, are the most authentic children of God.

Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self.