From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.

... people become like what they love.