We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

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

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

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.

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.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.