Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

If you really want to understand life, you have to stop pointing fingers at others and begin to understand every aspect of your life and see how it shapes in different ways.

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.

How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on?

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

A scattered effort is a poor effort.