“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”
“Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.”
“May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.”
“God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.”
“May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!”
“Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.”
“The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.”
“He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.”
“The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.”
“If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.”