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.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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

There is no salvation outside the church.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

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

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.