Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.