Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption.
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.
Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Don’t think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.