When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.