How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.