Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

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.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man