Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

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

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

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?