Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

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?

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

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.

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

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.