He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

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.