True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.