There is no greater misery than false joys.

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

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.