Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.