God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.