What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.