Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
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.
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
Nothing is small if God accepts it.
Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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