In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God’s face gives joy that never fails.
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
You say to me ‘Show me your God.’ I answer you, ‘Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.’
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
My weight is my love.
The diversity of language alienates man from man.
Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.