If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.