We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Pain is never permanent.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.