Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.