For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.