Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.