Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers