Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

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.

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

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

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.