Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.