Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

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

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

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.

Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.