O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Hear the other side.

The argument is at an end.

I was in love with loving.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.