He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

God knows what lives in me in place of me.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.