Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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