What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens..

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God..

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks..

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend..

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul..

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sw….

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory..

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment..

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attaine….

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure..

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics..

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life..

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault..

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks..

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool..

I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him….

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the….

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters..

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are c….

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is..