If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.