I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.