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

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

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.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.