Between urine and filth we are born.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.