Concerning those who stop praying:

"Why do those who serve God and desire to serve Him abandon it? I indeed, cannot understand why, unless they want to undergo trials of life with greater trial and close the door on God so that He may not make them happy. I certainly pity those who serve the Lord at their own cost, because for those who practice prayer the Lord Himself pays the cost, since through their little labor He gives them delight so that with the help of this delight they might suffer the trials." (Life, 8:8)

Concerning those who have not yet begun to pray:

"Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good…even if there is no great progress, or much effort in reaching such perfection as to deserve the favors and mercies God bestows on the more generous, at least a person will come to understand the road leading to heaven. And if one perseveres, I trust then in the mercy of God, Who never fails to repay anyone who has taken Him for a friend." (Life, 8:5)

Concerning prayer as the way to grow in God's blessings:

"I say only that prayer is the door to favors as great as those He granted me. If this door is closed, I don't know how He will grant them. For even though He may desire to enter and take delight in a soul and favor it, there is no way of His doing this, for He wants it alone and clean and desirous of receiving His graces. If we place many stumbling blocks in His path and don't do a thing to remove them, how will He be able to come to us?" (Life, 8:9)

Concerning her definition of prayer:

"For mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us."

(Life, 8:5)

Concerning conforming our wills to God's will:

"In order that love be true and the friendship endure, the wills of the friends must be in accord. The will of the Lord, it is already known, cannot be at fault; our will is vicious, sensual, and ungrateful. And if you do not yet love Him as He loves you because you have not reached the degree of conformity with His will, you will endure this pain of spending a long while with one who is so different from you when you see how much it benefits you to possess His friendship and how much He love you…O, what a good friend You make, my Lord! How you proceed by favoring and enduring. You wait for others to adapt to Your nature, and in the meanwhile You put up with theirs!" (Life, 8:5-6)

Concerning spiritual warfare:

"If this Lord is powerful, as I see that He is and I know that He is, and if the devils are His slaves (and there is no doubt about this because it's a matter of faith), what evil can they do to me since I am a servant of this Lord and King? Why shouldn't I have the fortitude to engage in combat with all of hell? I took a cross in my hand, and it seemed to me truly that God gave me courage because in a short while I saw that I was another person and that I wouldn't fear bodily combat with them; for I thought that with that cross I would easily conquer all of them…There was no doubt, in my opinion, that they were afraid of me, for I remained so calm and so unafraid of them all…I no longer had hardly any fear of them; rather it seemed they were afraid of me. I was left with a mastery over them truly given by the Lord of all; I pay no more attention to them than to flies. I think they're such cowards that when they observe that they are esteemed but little, their strength leaves them…May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear and understand that more harm can come to us from one venial sin than from all hell together-for this is so." (Life, 26:19-20)

Concerning her 'flying' experience:

"In those to whom this experience happens, the effects are remarkable. First there is a manifestation of the tremendous power of the Lord and how we are incapable, when His Majesty desires, of holding back the body any more than the soul, nor are we its master. Rather, whether or not we wish, we see that there is One Who is superior, that these favors are given by Him, and that of ourselves we can do absolutely nothing; deep humility is impressed upon the soul. Yet I confess that the favor greatly frightened me; at first the fear is extreme. When one sees one's body so elevated from the ground…one's feelings are not lost. At least I was conscious in such a way that I could understand I was being elevated. There is revealed a majesty about the One Who can do this that makes a person's hair stand on edge; and there remains a strong fear of offending so awesome a God. Yet such fear is accompanied by a very great love for Him, which grows ever deeper upon considering what He does to so rotten a worm. It doesn't seem He is satisfied in truly bringing the soul to Himself; but it seems that He desires the body…." (Life, 20:7)