Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
God leads every soul by a separate path.
Who teaches the soul if not God?
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.