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.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us