God’s love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
Love God, then do what you will.
Singing is a lover’s thing.
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say – as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
The weakness of little children’s limbs is innocent, not their souls .
Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
Every city is a living body.
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.
So if you can manage it, you shouldn’t touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.