If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.