Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.