If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

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.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.