Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

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

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.

Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.