We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

Love God, and do what you like.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.