Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them

My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it

Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they not in Me? He who neither cares to please men nor fears to displease them will enjoy great peace, for all unrest and distraction of the senses arise out of disorderly love and vain fear.