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

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Love follows knowledge.

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.