What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

Animals are footprints of God.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Unthankfulness is theft.