If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?