A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.