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

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 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?

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.

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.

A sunset will color your dreams.And a sunrise will color your smile.It's all God asks.

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Everyone's a little nothing.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.