Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

The centre of the soul is God; and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.