Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

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