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

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.