Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.