They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.