To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.