For Pity's Sake, Don't Start Meeting Troubles

His Majesty Knows Best What Is Suitable For Us. There's No Need For Us To Be Advising Him About What He Should Give Us, For He Can Rightly Tell Us That We Don't Know What We're Asking For (cf. Mt. 20:22). The Whole Aim Of Any Person Who Is Beginning Prayer ? And Don't Forget This, Because It's Very Important ? Should Be That He Work And Prepare Himself With Determination And Every Possible Effort To Bring His Will Into Conformity With God's Will.

Let Us Look At Our Own Faults, And Not Other People's. We Ought Not To Insist On Everyone Following In Our Footsteps, Nor To Take Upon Ourselves To Give Instructions In Spirituality When, Perhaps, We Do Not Even Know What It Is.

To Reach Something Good It Is Very Useful To Have Gone Astray, And Thus Acquire Experience.

Alas, O Lord, To What A State Dost Thou Bring Those Who Love Thee!

How Friendly We Should All Be With One Another If Nobody Were Interested In Money And Honor.