You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.