For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?