We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

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

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.