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

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.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

The measure of love is love without measure.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

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?