Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

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