It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

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

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

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