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

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

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.

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.