The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.