Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Don't be silly and don't waste your time.
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
