Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.