Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.