All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

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.