Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.