The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
Man is man, and master of his fate.
You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.