Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.