Occupation: Saint Birth: January 2, 1873 Death: September 30, 1897
Above the clouds the sky is always blue..
Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love..
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength..
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as jo….
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, he….
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness..
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest e….
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else..
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume o….
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all..
Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude..
Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let other….
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words..
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person..
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love..
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future..
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them..
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be..
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe..
When one loves, one does not calculate..
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing ….