It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.