The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.