We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

Pain is never permanent.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.