I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

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

Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.