Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Patience obtains everything.

Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

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

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.