Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

God is best known in not knowing him.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Love, and do what you like.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

He that is jealous is not in love.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.