In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.