Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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!

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.