There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
