Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.