I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

if you can, gift a relationship to someone rather destroy a relationship to someone .

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.