What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.

Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?