If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.