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

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

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

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.