All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

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

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.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.