"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

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

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

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

"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."

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

"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

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

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

"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."

"Love, and do what you like."

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

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

"There is no possible source of evil except good."

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

"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."

"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."

"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

"He that is jealous is not in love."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

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

"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."

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

"The greatest evil is physical pain."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

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

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

"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."

"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

"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."

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

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."