If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.