My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

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

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

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