Place your hope of peace not in men but in God alone.
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
He who knows how to suffer will enjoy much peace, and he is a conqueror of himself, the lord of the world, the friend of Christ, and an heir of Heaven.
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
Ask, and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things.