A person must strive long and mightily within oneself before one can learn fully to master oneself and to draw one’s whole heart to God. (CIoC)
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The holy martyr Laurence and his priest overcame the world, because whatever seemed delightful in the world he despised; and for the love of Christ he patiently suffered God’s chief priest Sixtus, whom he most dearly loved, to be taken away from him. He therefore overcame the love of people by the love of the Creator; and he rather chose what pleased God than human comfort. (CIoC)
It is not a hard matter to despise human comfort when what we have is divine. (CIoC)
To walk in the heart with God and not to be held in bondage by any outward affection is the state of a spiritual person. (CIoC)
The person that seeks no testimony on one’s own behalf from without shows that one has wholly committed oneself to God. (CIoC) “For not he that commends himself is approved (says St. Paul), but whom God commends” 2 Corinthians 10:18
People look on the outer features, but God on the inner heart. People consider the deeds, but God weights the intentions. (CIoC)
You are not the more holy for being praised; nor the more worthless for not being praised. Who you are, is who you are; words can’t make you greater than what you are in the sight of God. (CIoC)
To glory in tribulation is no hard thing for a person who loves, for so to glory, is to glory in the cross of the Lord. (CIoC)
God alone is everlasting, and of infinite greatness, filling all creatures with the comfort of the soul and the true joy of the heart. (CIoC)
Let nothing be great to you, nothing high, nothing pleasing, nothing acceptable, except God Himself, or that which is of God. (CIoC)
If you attend wholly to God and yourself, you will hardly be moved with whatever you see abroad. (CIoC)
We quickly feel and weigh what we suffer at the hands of others, but we don’t mind what others suffer from us. (CIoC) J e s u s Meditate on the passage about seeing saw dust in your brother’s eye and paying no attention to the plank in your own eye found in Saint Matthew’s biography of Christ Saint Matthew's biography of Christ 7:3
We reprehend small things in others and pass over greater matters in ourselves. (CIoC)
There is little light in us, and that which we have we quickly lose by our negligence. (CIoC)