Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

He who is not getting better is getting worse.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

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