There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.