What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?