Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.