There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that. However, you must not consider what he did as coming from him but rather as a trial which God wishes to make of your patience. This virtue will be even more a virtue in you who are more sensitive by nature and have given less cause for the offense that you have received.

It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.