Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

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.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.