There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
In our good works nothing is our own.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.