God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.