In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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

One loving heart sets another on fire.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.