Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.