Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

God asks little, but He gives much.

Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

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