He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.

It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.