For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
What do you possess if you possess not God?
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
If you understood him, it would not be God.
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I’m in misery.