I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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

But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.