God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.