Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.