God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

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

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.