What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.

I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.