The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.