He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man