“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradic...”

“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”

“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.”

“My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well with you. Your tardiness in turning to prayer is the greatest obstacle to heavenly consolation, for...”

“The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”