If faith fails, prayer perishes.
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.
Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord’s.
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.
Don’t go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it’s not healthy.
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God’s knowledge has no change or variation.
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You, O God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.