The Jews were God's chosen people.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.