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

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.

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.

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.