For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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.