Patience is the companion of wisdom.

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

If you understood him, it would not be God.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.