All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and then chewed it up for you before giving it to you?" If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

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

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.