If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

God is best known in not knowing him.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.