If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.