The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
The acknowledgement of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.
In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, And easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.
Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind.
Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes thou shalt be wearisome even to thyself. Neither canst thou be delivered or eased by any remedy or comfort; but so long as it pleaseth
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak; they show what he is.
And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there is no creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.
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