Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.