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.

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

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.