Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
For in our hope we are saved.
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility.
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.