I recommend to you holy simplicity.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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

You learn to love by loving.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."