How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

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.

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

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