"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."

"Peasants are no better than pigs."

"What God wills is not right because he ought, or was bound, so to will; on the contrary, what takes place must be right, because he so wills it."

"The soul can do without anything except the Word of God, without which there is no help for it at all."

"Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all."