The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

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.

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

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

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?

The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship.