Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.

The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.