Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.