When desire stops, there is no more fear. We are then truly free, peaceful, and happy.

The person who has nothing to do doesn't need to put on airs or leave any trace behind.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Finding fulfillment in God is the most powerful antidote to any sin.

John Wesley once boldly proclaimed that it is not possible for a man to be happy who is not also holy, and the way he explains it makes much sense. Who can be truly "happy" while filled with anger, rage, and malice? Who can be happy while nursing resentment or envy? Who can be honestly happy while caught in the sticky compulsion of an insatiable lust or incessant materialism.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Ain't one limb enough?

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.