A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.