When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.