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

Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

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

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.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.