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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.