Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

As the old Ranger adage went "If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Awaiting to see the other side of the Coin, whatever it is, Accept it, because you Deserve it