Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.