There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.