I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.
The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.
When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.
It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.
We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
If you are aware that people are coming to you to receive your gift and not necessarily to you as the person, it keeps you very humble. Many people make the mistake of confusing the attraction of people to their lives as something that has to do with them as a person or a personality, and this is very dangerous and not true.