O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

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

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.