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.
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
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.
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
The reward of patience Is patience.
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.