Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.