If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.