"I am a worm and no man."

"I have to confess that I have no desire to be a martyr."

"The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing."

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

"I never learned to pray as I ought until I had been scourged by the devil."