Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

Doubt is but another element of faith.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.