"Day after day I postponed living in you, but I never put off the death which I died each day in myself. I longed for a life of happiness but I was frightened to approach it in its own domain; and yet,…"

"He who is not jealous is not in love."

"The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place."