The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.