We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

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