Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.