My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.