Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!
Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross.”- Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.
Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.