Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.