Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

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