Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

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.

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.