Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man