Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.