Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

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

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.