Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

Love God, and do what you like.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.