If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

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

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

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.