Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

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

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.