God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Understanding is the wages of faith.
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.