Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

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

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.