It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.