Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

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

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.