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

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Patience obtains everything.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

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