Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.