God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

I believe in order that I may understand.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.