Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.