Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

God without us will not as we without God cannot.