It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

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

For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.