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Only he who is centered in Christ can be said to live - to understand what it really means to live.

Be indifferent in all things; and let it be the same to you to do one thing as to do another, to have one office as to have another.

It should be known that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden by his essence and his presence in the innermost being of the soul. Individuals who want to find him should leave all things through affection and will, enter within themselves in deepest recollection, and let all things be as not.

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

By God, of God, and for God, this is the final goal of every creature.

God is freeing my heart of every natural attraction, perhaps to make room there for purer things in which there will be only the desire for my neighbor's good.

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.

Remember that you are in exile and therefore do not wish to act as if you were in your fatherland.

It's an amusing thing that even though we still have a thousand impediments and imperfections and our virtues have hardly begun to grow -and please, God, they might have begun- we are yet not ashamed to seek spiritual delights in prayer or to complain about dryness.

His Majesty knows what is good for us; it is not for us to advise Him how to treat us, for He has the right to tell us that we know not what we ask. Remember, it is of the greatest importance- the sole aim of one beginning to practice prayer should be to endure trials, and to resolve and strive to the utmost of her power to conform her own will to the will of God.

There is so much to make reparation for, so much to ask, that I believe to fulfill such needs one must become a continual prayer, one must love much. The power of a soul given to love is so wonderful as we see from the beautiful example of St Mary Magdalen; one word was enough for her to obtain the resurrection of Lazarus.

Look not at the imperfections of others, keep silence and have continual converse with God. These three things will uproot great imperfections from the soul and make it mistress of great virtues.