The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, “I am the truth.
When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship.
If God had designed woman as man’s master, he would have taken her from his head; if as his slave, he would have taken her from his feet; but as he designed her for his companion and equal, he took her from his side.
What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be a man by worshiping man-made gods than for idols to become divine by being adored.
Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.
Let such a person rejoice even to ask the question, “What does this mean?” Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.
No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.