For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.