We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

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.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.