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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.
Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.
I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.