When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?