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.
Between urine and filth we are born.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Your wisdom should be without pride.
What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Truth is not private property.
I believe in order to understand.
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.