[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

All times are dangerous times.