Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

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

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.