If you seek your Lord Jesus in all things you will truly find Him, but if you seek yourself you will find yourself, and that will be to your own great loss.
(p. 85)
No harm comes if you hold yourself worse than any other, though it may not in truth be so, but much harm results if you prefer yourself above any other, even if he is ever so great a sinner. Great peace is with the humble man, but in the heart of a proud man are always envy and anger.
(p. 39)
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
(pp. 32-33)
You are not the better because you are praised, or the worse because you are blamed, for as you are, you are, and whatever is said of you, you are no better than Almighty God ... will testify that you are. If you behold well what you are inwardly, you will not care much what the world says of you outwardly. Man sees the face, but God beholds the heart; man beholds the deeds, but God beholds the intention of the deeds.
(p. 83)
Hold always in yourself a firm ground and a sure foundation of humility, and then the height of virtue will shortly be given to you, for the high tower of virtue cannot long stand unless it is based on the low foundation of humility.
(p. 91)
(Said to God:) Through humility You will show me what I am, what I have been, and from whence I came, for I am nothing, and did not know. If I am left to myself, then I am nothing, and all is frailty and imperfection; but if You vouchsafe a little to regard me, soon I am made strong and am filled with a new joy...
I have lost You, and myself as well, by the inordinate love I have had for myself; in seeking You again, I have found both You and myself. Therefore, I will from now on more deeply set myself at naught and more diligently seek You than I have done in times past.
(p. 117)
(Said by God:) The higher they are in heaven, the more humble they are in themselves, and the closer to Me and the more in love with Me.
(p. 197)
If you would learn anything and know it profitably to the health of your soul, learn to be unknown and be glad to be considered despicable and as nothing.
(p. 33)
Never crave to be singularly loved or commended, for that belongs only to God, who has none like Himself.
(p. 86)
Woe be to them who disdain to humble themselves as little children, for the low gate of heaven will not permit them to enter through it.
(p. 198)
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