For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.