To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

Pain is never permanent.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.