I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

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

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.