When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

Poetry is the Devil’s wine.

So give to the poor; I’m begging you, I’m warning you, I’m commanding you, I’m ordering you.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Attract them by the way you live.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is.

I was in love with loving.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.