How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

... people become like what they love.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.