Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.