For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.