Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

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

See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

Silence is God's first language.