I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.