I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

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

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

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.