If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.