“Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.”

“Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”

“Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).”

“So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them.”

“Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love.”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“No longer was he the man who had joined the crowd; he was now one of the crowd he had joined, and a genuine companion of those who had led him there.”