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

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

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.