What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.