I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

Patience obtains everything.

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

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

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.