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

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

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.

Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.