If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

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

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

If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.

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?

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.