Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.