God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.