Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.