If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer.