Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.