Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

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