Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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.

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.