It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.