All times are dangerous times.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

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

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.