Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

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

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

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.