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

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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