"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience." — Saint Teresa of Avila

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

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.