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

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

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

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 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.

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.