Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

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

One always goes on as one begins.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.