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?

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

The measure of love is love without measure.

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.

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

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

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