Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

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.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.