The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.