Miscellanea

Never stop reflecting on that maxim of the apostle, ‘Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.’

We need more singing! Sing more and murmur less! Sing more and slander less! Sing more and cavil less! Sing more and mourn less!

…whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.

… the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

If I do truly love goodness in rich apparal, why do I not also love it in rags?

God bids us to do what we cannot, that we may know what we ought to seek from Him.

Prefer even vicious people to be cured rather than condemned …. If you want to quarrel with your enemy, quarrel first with your own heart. Quarrel, I tell you. Quarrel …

Why art thou proud, O man? God for thee became low. Thou wouldst perhaps be ashamed to imitate a lowly man; then at least imitate the lowly God.

But the rewards of the Lord cannot be before your eyes unless your sins are before your eyes. Let not delight in past sin be before your eyes, but let the condemnation of …

Not that there are no other precepts to give but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are meaningless.