May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

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