For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
The hour I have long wished for is now come.