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 asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Between urine and filth we are born.

God is best known in not knowing him.