Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.