What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

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

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.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

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.

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

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.