In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.