If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

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.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

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

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.