If you understand, it is not God.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.