It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

During the night we must wait for the light.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.