Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.