For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.