Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

Habit is overcome by habit.

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.