Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

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

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?