I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.