That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.