What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

All things are possible to one who believes.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.