The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.