The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Swimming is simply moving meditation.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.