For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all things.Whoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.