However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

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?

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.