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

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

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.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.