Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

God is even kinder than you think.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Patience obtains everything.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.