Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

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

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

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