A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.