If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.