“Two things specially avail unto improvement in holiness, namely firmness to withdraw ourselves from the sin to which by nature we are most inclined, and earnest zeal for that good in which we are most lacking.”

“We would be well on the way to perfection if we could weed out one vice from ourselves each year.”

“It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high...It is vanity, to love that which quickly passeth away and not to hasten where eternal joy abideth”

“Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.”

“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”

“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”

“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.”