I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.