What we love we shall grow to resemble.

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

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

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