My weight is my love.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.