"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.