The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

The happy man in this life needs friends.