I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.