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

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

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?

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.