“It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.”

“Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.”

“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”

“For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes us lose sight of the fact; but when this favour is granted it can no longer do so, for the Lord, who is near at hand, awakens it. And even the favours aforementioned occur much more commonly, as the soul experiences a vivid and almost constant love for Him whom it sees or knows to be at its side.”

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”

“All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.”

“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”