The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.