God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.