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.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

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