By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.