If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?