My sole occupation is love.

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

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

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

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.