Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.