Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!