Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

To sing is to pray twice.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.