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

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.