For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.

You shall leave everything you love.

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.