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

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.