There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Pain is never permanent.