“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.