One always goes on as one begins.

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

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.