Physical birth takes place because of parents, but spiritual birth by sacred soul.
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
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.
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
Ask, and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
First keep yourself in peace and then you will be able to bring others to peace. The peaceable man does more good than one who is very learned.
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.