“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!”

“When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”

“I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.”

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

“The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say – as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.”

“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”

“If you are your own worst enemy, don't do yourself any favors.”

“There is no one at the Communion table who retains against you even the least of your sins, no one, unless you yourself do it. So cast them away from yourself, and the recollection of them, lest in it your retain them; and cast the recollection of your having cast your sins away, lest in it you retain them. P. 170”