We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.