In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

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.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.