Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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.
Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe
The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
Salvation is God's way of making us real people.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
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.
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
He that is jealous is not in love.
