Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other