Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of your journey, but rather are contented with them, they will grow afraid of you.

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.