“Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”
“Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.”
“Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.”
“Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.”
“Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.”
“If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.”
“The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.”
“The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.”
“Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.”
“He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.”
“Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.”
“As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.”
“It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.”
“Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.”
“Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”
“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?”
“He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.”
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”
“Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.”