True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

Teach by works more than words.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.