You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.