I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.