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

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

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.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us