All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.