Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

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

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.

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.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?

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

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.