If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's mind.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.