Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

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.

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

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

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

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