The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

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

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Patience obtains everything.

Patient endurance attends to all things.