Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.