He that is jealous is not in love.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.